To the Editor: In reporting on student consternation over college textbook prices (front page, Oct. 21), you do not mention that the actual price a student pays for a new textbook at the campus bookstore, where most students buy their books, is...

October 23, 2003, Thursday

To the Editor: Re ''New Premise in Science'': One should not underestimate the role of traditional journals in disseminating scientific, technical and medical research. Besides serving as the heart of the tenure process, the journals and their...

OPRAH WINFREY may have her reading club, but other celebrities are joining efforts to persuade more Americans to pick up a book. In a campaign designed to make reading cool to young people -- and, by extension, to sell more books -- the actress...

To the Editor: Reading the list of former members of Congress now serving as lobbyists (news article, Sept. 29), I saw only one woman's name: Patricia Schroeder, the former Congresswoman from Colorado who is now president of the American...

October 3, 1998, Saturday

To the Editor: In ''Behind the Sidewalk Book Bargains: A Manhattan Mystery'' (news article, March 15), Patricia Schroeder, the former Congresswoman from Colorado who is now president of the American Association of Publishers, rebuts the notion...

March 18, 1998, Wednesday

What do Pat Schroeder (left), Bill Bradley (center) and Susan Molinari (right) have in common? They all fled Congress in the last few years, joining a virtual riptide of legislators who've decided that the Hill just isn't cool anymore. (''I feel like...

August 31, 1997, Sunday

PATRICIA SCHROEDER, who left the House of Representatives in January after 12 terms, has a new job. She has been named the president and chief executive of the Association of American Publishers, the trade group for the book publishing industry. She...

Representative Patricia Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat who is retiring this year, is in the running for the top job at Haverford College here. Ms. Schroeder, the most senior woman in Congress, is among 4 finalists for the job. She and 3 academics...

November 3, 1996, Sunday

ONCE upon a time, like about three months ago, a soccer mom was just that. She turned up where she was expected. Pacing the sidelines of her children's games, she wore T-shirts emblazoned with slogans like ''I don't have a life. My kids play...

With Denver's Congressional seat up for grabs for the first time since Patricia Schroeder won here in 1972, a surprisingly contentious race has come down to fan clothing and accessories. Joe Rogers, a Republican lawyer and the first black to run...